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Vol. VIII., No. 27PASSINGEVENTSOf Men and Things in thePublic Mind.The rapid passin° r of the veteransof the Great Civil war on both sidesis causing much comment at the pres- Ient time. It is almost remarkable the jlarge number of Union veterans that j} have died within the past few years, jThe Grand Army of the Republic a jfew years ago showed an enrollment jof 357,630, and during that short per-1iod of time pretty nearly one-fourthof that number have passed to thegreat beyond from whence no traveler ever returns. During that time jT.O.iT; members of the Grand Army jhave died, and the loss by years is as jlows:T^oss from IMember- previousship. year.June 30, 1895 357.630 34,(61Jmie 30. IS% 340.«>10 IT.ol'.iJune 30, 1897 31».4fiC 21,154June 30, 1898 305.603 13.553June 30, 1899 257.951 17.622June 30, 1900 U7<;.»;02 11,219June 30. 1901 269,5U< 7.055While The Republican has no figure at hand to show the loss bydeath among the Confederate soldiers, yet it lias been authoratively given out that they are dying off evenmore rapidly than the Union veterans.tl will thus be seen that the activeparticipants in that fearful internecene war will all soon have shuffled offthis mortal coil.B Prom the Washington Star a re- |w markable .story is told about some■ laborers finding a number of goldI bars while excavating for a buildingI some years ago in California. Thegold found by those men was worth$250,000, and quite a pen picture hasbeen made by the writer over its disposal. While excavating, so goesfefc&hc story, an Italian founu a gold oar.■&i. wanting his companions to knowI the find, he hid the same and connued digging. Soon he ran on toanother bar, and continued to find somany that he could not keep the secret, and so the workmen agreed todivide the gold equally among thefive, which was done, and keepmum. They were quite successful in getting the goldy away and concealing the same, andafter it had been sold and the moneydivided among them they spent itaccording to their own inclinations.The old adage, however, that"stolen gold brings to its possessorbad luck," seems to have been the\ ate of those men. One of the meubought a $70,000 farm, and in lessthan five years' time lost the samethrough speculation. The Italian furnished up a home in Oakland in themost elaborate style and, strange tosay, in five years' time he had lostevery cent and was again a pauper.The third man squandered his entirefindings in gambliug houses. Thefourth man was no more successfulthan was the third, while the tifthten years thereafter died a pauperand was buried in the potters' field.According to a report of the Secretary of the Navy, the following battleships will soon be ready for navalservices: The battleship Maine willbe completed in October, 1902; theMissouri in March, 1903; the Ohio inMay, 1903; the Virginia, Nebraska,Georgia, New Jersey and Rhode Island i tne summer of 1904. Thearmed cruisers Pennsylvania, WestVirginia, Colorado, Maryland. California and South Dakita in August, 1904.When these battleships and cruisersshall have all been finished the United States will rank among the leading naval powers in the world, andperhaps it can be truthfully saidthat she will be the ranking navalpower.The problem of settling up theNorthwest territories is again agitating the minds of the Canadians.While a few Americans are leavingthe United States and settling inthe British possessions, the numberis so small that it can hardly belooked upon as a migratory move, andthere are a very few families, comparatively speaking, who leave the oldcountry and settle in Canada; but, onthe other hand, hundreds and thousands are finding homes in the United States from all of the Europeancountries. The average Canadian, realizing this, has grown restless overthe outlook, and is appealing to thehome government to send out English, Irish and Scotch and any othernationality it can. to begin to settleup the farm lands in that country.During the present year, accordingto Canadian statistics, but 49.1G2 settlers located in the Northwest. Ofthat number, 9,331 were English, 9,333Irish, 1,476 Scotch, f>2o German, 838Scandinavian. 492 French and Bel• gians and IT.r.Tl' from other European countries. The previous yearthere were 35,000 arrivals in theNorthwest.The revolution which is now inprogress in the republic of Colombia,is assuming a rather perplexing situation, owing to the fact that theUnited States government is compelled to step in between the insurgents and the regular troops to prevent the bombardment of Colon, thecapitol of Colombia, in which a vastamount of American interests are tobe found. Already Uncle Sam hasa number of gunboats and a manof-war in Colombian waters, andThe SEATTLE REPUBLICANP %I Seattle's Metropolitan Supply House |. v . If/\{; ,_-»^_-^^ tßwa^MMMiiar^« _- it!■ • IK& " ■.• 4 jE\> = = ==== \&|1/ AI HE above cut shows the interior oF the store of the Messrs. Gilson, Snyder and Lane are old residents of is president of this practically new concern speaks volumes Jk'•v- I Engineers' Supply Co., 110 Railroad Avenue. This the city, and that they have the confidence of the business fcr its future success. \*J.•jf JL Company was incorporated one year ago, with Geo. community is shown by the rapid growth of the business, Unlike the most of the machine shops of this city, Mr. \f/\|/ N Gilson president, Chas. W. Snyder secretary and which has increased several fold in the last year. This Gilson's shop never has any labor troubles to contend with, \£j\|/ J- F- Lane treasurer. It is the only house in the city firm solicits correspondence in their line from all Pacific as the men who work for the Company are well pleased xlv\hi carrying exclusively engineers' supplies, and of this line Coast points from dealers, and their inquiries will be prompt- with their employers. ■ J.Jf of goods it carries a complete stock of lubricating oils, ly answered and all orders will be carefully filled and sent Seattle and this section of the country has been sadly in \y11/ grease, packing, steam and water hose, pipe and pipe fit- out with neatness and dispatch. need of just such a supply house as this ever since the Klon- \|/\|/ ings, and all kinds of brass goods. The Company also Seattle has no more trustworthy and reliable business dike excitement and the development of Alaska, and the yff4Ji has the sole agency for the Chapman, Ashton and Bashlin mau than Mr ; Oeo N Gilson> and the mere fact that he Engineer's Supply Depot can be truly said to fill the long 'k'... valves. felt want Wperemptory orders have been givento the United States officials to notallow any bombardment of Colon byeither of the belligerents. Shouldeither side be so foolish as to not obeythe orders of the United States, thenour country would have another waron its hands in short notice, andthat might complicate things worsethan has been even prophesied by themost pessemistic creature in the United States. For should the UnitedStates become involved in war withany of the South American republics, there is no telling where itwould end and what European nations would be drawn into the embroglio. but it could have but oneterminus, and that would be the absorption of the entire South American countries by the United States.Some interesting disclosures haveeeently been made by The Armymd Navy Journal concerning the varinis nationalities represented in theUnion army during the war betweenhe states. Out of an enrollment of 2,--)00,000 officers and men, it appearshat one-fourth of this number were oforeign birth, distributed among the, rarious nationalities as follows: Gernany, 175.000; England, 50,000;iritish America, 50,000; Ireland, 150,-->OO, and other countries, 75,000, makng in all 500,000 foreigners enlistedm the Union side.The French officials have decided:o issue no more gloves to soldiers, asi matter of economy.There is one city at least in thekvorld that is out of debt. Metz is notjnly out of debt, but has 579.400narks to its credit.Recently a somnambulist near Bellows Falls, Vermont, got up at 2j'clock in the morning, harnessed histeam, put a load of pulp wood intothe wagon and drove down to themill, entirely unconscious of what hewas doing.Rhosilanerchrugog is the name of atown in Wales with a population ofKi.ooo. that has decided to have thecity streets go unlighted this winteron account of the high price chargedfor gas. The residents have also decided to not use gas in their houses.Near Lockport, N. V., not longsince, gold nuggets and fine gold dustto the value of $7,000 were found inan old shanty. The gold is supposedto have been left by an eccentric oldhermit, who went to California intlif rarly 50s, and after he had madea fortune returned East and spentthe balance of his life as a hermit.The use of the Missouri meerschaum, which is nothing more orless than a corn cob pipe, has becomeso universal at present that one firmalone in that state turns out 17,000,--000 of them annually, and the firstman to invent this pipe died a fewdays ago a many times millionairefrom the results of his invention.BROTHERIN BLACKUnder Critical Eye of Observing Men.BROTHER IN BLACKThe servant girl problem is seriously troubling the householders ofthe Canadian government, and at apublic meeting held in Toronto a fewdays ago the women decided to make !an effort to import colored girls fromthe Barbadoes islands, to be used asservant girls. According to their report, there are thousands of coloredgirls in those islands, who possessmore than ordinary intelligence, andwho would gladly come to Canadawere the facilities afforded them, an 1the Canadians entertaining no prejudice against colored people, it wasdecided to try the experiment. Atthe same time they decided whetherthey did or did not get colored belp,they wouldn't use Chinamen,If the Washington Star can be believed, Booker Washington was notthe first colored man to be entertained at the White House by a President of the United States at a publicdinner. It claims that Professor Benjamin Banneker, a Negro noted forhis mathematical attainments, especially in astronomy, and also as alinguist, was dined by PresidentThomas Jefferson, and it furthersays Hen. C. H. J. Taylor, a notedNegro Democrat, was entertained atdinner by President Cleveland. BothJefferson and Cleveland were Democrats, and this probably accounts forthe Southern press not making anyoutcry against this form of socialequality at the White House.The University of Chicago is greatly shocked over the report that hasreached the walls of that famous institution of learning to the effect thatC. S. Sparks, a young colored graduate of the school, and who was oneof its most successful students, isnow under sentence of death i:iColumbus. Georgia, and will be; hanged December 20th. Sparks■ worked has way through the univeri sity and was favored by the students1 and officials in his efforts to get anI education. He stood well in his clas>! and graduated with distinguished! honors. He is charged with having' conspired with a woman to kill her; husband for the purpose of gettingI his insurance.Nothing pays so well as a goodI strong kick when one is displeased ati anything. The colored folk in: Charleston, S. C, objected to a piecei of statuary which had been placed on| the exposition grounds to delineateSEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1901the Negro life in the South, whichshowed him in a humiliating condition, and they threatened to boycott!the exposition if it was exposed to jpublic gaze. While the work was jsaid to be the sculptor's masterpiece,it was. nevertheless, displeasing to !them, and they objected to it andmade a united kick, and as a resultthe menageinent of the exposition hasdecided to not allow it on the groundsThough it met the approval of BookerT. Washington and other leading colored men, it met the opposition of agreat majority of the colored folkof the youth, and it was in their pov,er to bankrupt the exposition if theyinstituted a boycott on it, which theythreatened to do and would have doneif the statuary had not been removedfrom the exposition grounds.Some one wrote, "He who laughslast, laughs best," and the InterOcean says the colored voters ofAlabama are going to have the laughon their would-be disfranchises, forwhen the new constitution will gointo effect there will be fully 30,000colored men in the state qualified tocast their votes as the constitutioncommands, and it is thought by thetime the next presidential election ison, more colored men will be able tointelligently cast their ballots thanever before, owing to the fact that theeducational qualification test will decide as to whether they can or cannot vote. A similar law was passedin Maryland, and as a result thatstate will become an almost certainRepublican state, though it is supposed to have gone Democratic at therecent election.The state comptroller of Georgiasays that the colored folk of that stateown property valued at $15,(i29,000 atthe present time which is an increase of $1,500,000 over the previousyear. The comptrollers report alsoshows that the colored colk owned!OT.iiT;: acres of land in 1900, value!at $4.274.0it0. and 1,141.]::.". acres in1901. valued at $4,656,000.President Roosevelt has appointedProf. Robert H. Terrell and Hon. E.L. Hewlett as police judges in Washin nton City. These positions bein.under civil service, are for life or during good behavior. Both of these gentlemen are well known Afro-Americans of Washington City, and theirappointments mark the first of thekind in the history of the government. The president's appointmentof these two men is causing equallyas widespread criticisms of himself asdid his dining of Booker Washington.There is no law against the intermarriage of white and colored peoplein the state of Washington, hut in theinterest of future generations in bothraces, there ought to be. By the way,have you ever observed that in thesecolor mixtures it is the female generally who is the white end of them ?And yet there are some who contendthat women ought to be allowed tovcte.TACOMA NEW HERALDExcuse the plainness of speech.neighbor, but we are prepared toprove that you are the biggest liarthat ever published a newspaper, jThere are nearly 2,000,000 mulattoes in the South, and we are prepared to say that with the very rarestexceptions not one of them are from Iparents with a white mother and acolored father, but just the reverse isthe rule. I'ntil you have the necessary fads and figures at your command, it is advisable that you makeno more such bad breaks as theabove. The state of Washingtonwants no black laws unless it is toprevent such prevaricators as youfrom miscegnating with your coloredfemale superiors.President Roosevelt has follower!up the Booker Washington episodeby appointing a "nigger" a municipal judge of the District of Columbia.- -Washington Standard.It is just such flannel-mouth micksas you that keep the race questionalways at white heat. PresidentRoosevelt comes pretty near knowing what he is doing without anysuggestions from either you or yourVile sheet.John Henry, the young colored man.who drifted into town last Friday afternoon, is now confined in the countyjail with a charge of murder in thefirst degree hanging over his head.Henry says that he is 25 years of age.and that he was born in Jeffersoncounty. X. V. He has no parents living, and was reared until he was 13 byan uncle, who still lives in New Yorkstate. Since he was i:i he has battledfor himself and has drifted from pillar to post, with no object or aim inthe world save to have a good time.He has been West but a few months.He came to Seattle, as said before, lastFriday, and at nee sought the lowerend haunts. Last Saturday evening.while in a concert hall, he became involved in an altercation with a bartender, and was roughly handled byhim. After he had been knockeddown, so he claims, and thrown outof the room, he pulled a 3S revolverand began tiring at the bartender. Hefailed, however, to hit the bartender,but did hit a bystander, who was instantly killed. The name of the unfortunate man was H. P. Kinney, whohas been a resident of this city fora number of years. Attorneys differas to the degree of the crime committed by Henry: some think it manslaughter, others think it murder inthe first degree, others the second degree, while his attorneys believe theywill be able to show that the manshot in self defense. Henry looksyoung for his age, and would impressone as being a mere boy. not over18 years of age. if that.I It is rather remarkable to note thepromptness that the prosecuting attorney's office is using to dispose oithe Henry murder case. In one hourafter the coroner's inquest had beenheld the prosecuting attorney's officehad filed an information of murderin the first degree against Henry, andthen and there served notice on hisattorneys that he would be given butforty-eight hours to plead to thecharge. Though Henry's attorneys,Messrs. Hawkins and Black, remonstrated against such brevity, the prosecuting attorney would not be moveda peg from his purpose. It is unprecedented in the long list of murdercases in King county to not give theaccused a preliminary hearing, andjust why this man Henry was movedagainst by the prosecuting attorney'soffice so forcibly is a matter of streetconjecture among the legal fraternityof the city. Apparently Henry hascommitted an awful crime, but he isentitled to a fair and impartial trialjust the same as if he had thousandsof dollars at his back, and there isno excuse for the prosecuting attorney's office to take advantage of theman as it is doing at present. Givehim a fair and impartial trial, and ifhe is found guilty of murder in thefust degree, or any other degree, givehim the full benefit of the law; but itis a burning shame to railroad him tothe gallows simply because he is a 'Negro. The Negroes of this ommunity have from time to time notedthe general demeanor of the prosecuting attorneys under the present incumbent when one of them has beencharged with crime, which has beenanything but fair; and the Henry caseis the worst of all.According to State HorticulturistVan Holdenbecbe, there will be 250,--000 fruit trees planted by orchardistsin this state during the present season.The city of Whatcom has a wellorganized tax payers' league, whichis endeavoring to keep a bright lookout for the best financial interests ofthat section of the state.Our office is at 1411 Third avenue.»♦»»♦♦♦»♦»♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦I |fi|l CRESCENT |] ||# CREAM ||j llpS'3 TOfFFF I* 'saSlr'SS^^ uUiill ♦<> Strictly High Grade; Used by <►o all Lovers of Really Good %*l Coffee and Recom- 1><> mended by the <>o Leading Chefs. <>| -<^_ ASK YOUR GROCER o♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦»♦REALM OFRELIGIONAmong the World's Christians <and Quasi Christians.A general convention of the lTnivarsalist churches held in Buffalo in 'October made two radical changes lin the make-up of their convention. 'First, the body was made more 1Democratic by increasing its size andadopting new principles; and sec- ..ondly, by abrogating the law requir- ring any creedal affirmation as a condition of fellowship. .Bishop Jeremiah S. Crowley, whowas ex-communicated in Chicago notlong since, created a panic in thechurch by entering the alter duringhigh mass, has written a letter tothe Inter Ocean explaining his actions. He has also sued the t'atli ,olic church for damages, the trial of cwhich promises to furnish some ,spicy reading matter for the daily (papers of that city. At Hie time theex-bishop went into the church, services were at once suspended, owing lto his presence in the church. He 'refused to go out, and the services 'were dismissed.Recently Bishop Potter strongly ad- ivised the clergy against Interfering 1in politics, as it was contrary to the 1religious teachings of all Christianchurches. More recently, however.Bishop Crosland Doane, of Albany. 'Xew Nork, addressed the annual con- 'vention in his diocese, and among 'the thugs enumerated which the 'clergy should preach about was poli- :tics. His remarks along this linewere as wollows:"The indifference of so many citi- :/:e:is to their civic duties, resulting incorrupt municipalities, venal legislation and the prostitution of government to selfish ends; the disregard ofthe Lord's day; the inevitable connection between the futile attempt 'to destroy civil authority by foulmurder of the individual magistrateand the still more futile attempt todethrone God by denying all religiousobligation: the reaction from Pur:tanical exaggeration about games andthe theater to the indecent toleration of disgusting spectacular sensationalism and to the odious desecration of the nature and the homes ofwomen by the shame and sin ofgambling; the attempt to rescue the :restful and cheerful purpose of th-Lord's day from the morose severityof Sabbatarianism by desecrating itinto a day of mere feasting andamusement, and divorce, with rightto remarriage, for any other reasonthan the putting asunder of Cod.During the session of the EpiscopalBishops Convention, held in San FranPrice Five CentsThe Canadian Bankof CommerceWith which is amalgamatedThe Bank of British ColumbiaHead Office, Toronto. Established 1867Capital paid up 000,000LKight Million Dollars].Surplus $2,000,000Accounts of Banks, Corporations, Firmsand Individuals Solicited.Drafts issued available in any part of theWorld.Having established branches at DAWSON, WHITEHORSE, SKAGWAY andATLIN, this Bank has exceptional facilities for handling YUKON and ALASKAbusiness.Interest allowed on Time Deposits.A General Banking Business TransactedSeattle Branch D. A. CAMERONCor. James St. & 2d Aye. ilgr.Cisco, Cal., a letter was drafted andsent out to all of the Episcopalchurches, and the same was read inmost of the churches of New Yorkon Sunday, November 10th. Alludingto municipal politics, the letter hasthis to say: "The failure of a citizen of a republican government to dohis duty in the endeavor to elect honest and true men as the officers ofthat government, is the earliest political manifestation of this perniciouslife. The selfish indifference which.governed by disgust, is content thatthe city or the state shall be givenup into the hands of the least reputable people in it, rather than do valiant and painful battle to preserve theballot's purity and honesty of officialadministration, this is the tiny germwhich grows into the vigor whichthreatens our very social life. Thecitizen who first selfishly refuses todo his civic duty, and then, in naturaldescent along the easy path, becomesthe giver of bribe and the corruptorof his fellows, is himself degradedmore and more in the process, andthe bottom is found when civic rightsand civic righteousness are alikegotten, when duty to his neighbor nolonger demands performance, whenprotection to weakness, the equalityof freemen, the conservation of honesty, are no longer the ends of government, but only the securing ofpeculiar privileges for a class, thecomfortable enjoyment of a protectedlicense; when duty to man is forgoiten because duty to God is denied."ITEMS OF INTERESTThe Santos Dv Mont Hying machinelias been pronounced an absolute success by scientific experts.In a dining car on the New YorkCentral a few days ago, 31$ dinnerswere served without having to restock the car.The new state capitol of Colorado,which is. located in Denver, cost thatstate $3,000,000. It is built of RockyMountain granite.The natural gas output at presentin West Virginia is valued at $3,000,--•00 per annum, which has attracted avast number of manufacturers to thatlocality.In order to rent a deer forest ivScotland, one is compelled to payfrom JC 1,000 to £ 5,000 per season.A watermelon in Camdon tipped thebeam at 7t> pounds.During the recent rush to El Renoto register for government homesteads, a conductor collected 241tares from persons sitting on top ofthe train.America's steamers still lead theworld in speed and endurance, as oneOf her vessels outstripped an Englishcompetitor iv covering half the distance around the world by live days.The Harvard observatory has successfully photographed a flash oflightning, which promises to opennew fields of study along this line.James air, a young farmer >fIllinois, has married three times during the present year. Each time hemarried a girl only 10 years of age.From the first two he was divorced.Dr. J. M. Buckley, who talked ailength with Charles J. Guiteau afterhe had shot President Garfield andhad been condemned to be hanged,declares that Guiteau was a sane manat the time he committed the act.Frank Kittridge, of South Dakota,is the possesser of a razor that hasbeen in his family since 1740. It isstill in good condition, and is usedby its present owner for tonsorialpurposes.There are 150,000 persons employedin Germany in the manufacture o[cotton goods. Nevertheless, Germanyis almost wholly dependent upon theUnited States for her raw cotton supply.Rural free delivery of United Statesmail promises to revolutionize theroad systems in those sections wheresuch is in vogue. No mail will bedelivered in any section where theroads are not kept in good order.Along the Amazon river there areseveral Indian tribes that use a snuffcalled pereca. The effect of this narcotic is so violent that me takerdrops as it" shot, and lays insensiblefor some time.California is the longest state inthe Union (770 miles), while Texasis said to be the widest (760 miles).The custom of cremating the dea.Thas been in vogue in Japan for 1200years.